All over town were posters promoting Lucha Libre coming to San Pancho and the second Jeremy saw one of the posters he was all over it. Names like "Mascarita Sagrada y La Parkita vs. Nino Suicida y Chavo Santana" and "Loco Gonzalez y Muerte Negra vs. La Sombra y Kimbar Jr" had Jeremy so psyched that he bought tickets the minute he could find them. You could buy ring-side seats or bleacher seats and of course we splurged for the ring-side seats--and they were worth it!
It was almost more fun watching and listening to the crowd yell and taunt the wrestlers then it was to watch the wrestlers themselves. These were definitely amateur luchadoras that still needed to perfect their theatrical moves and timing to make such an event believable, but they played to the crowd, even yelling back with some provocative taunts that young children shouldn't hear!
This was definitely one of the best nights we've had so far in San Pancho. We had good company all around us and got to experience Mexican wrestling at it's finest. Cheap tickets, cold Modelo beer, and Jeremy getting his picture taken with the shortest wrestler there and the "devil dog." Priceless!
the dogs are called "mexican hairless" or "xoloitzcuintli" "Xolo" for short. They are pretty cool dogs. They have hairless cats too, called "sphynx" I would LOVE one!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Brandi. It's great to know the actually name of the dog. There are two that live a few houses down from us, and I must admit the first time we saw them we thought they were really sick. It was frightening at first when it ran up to me, I jumped back and wouldn't touch it!
ReplyDeleteThe homeless dog population in San Pancho is almost non-existant, all of the dogs you see wandering look heathy and well taken care of. And I was glad to see that.